, 1887-04-24
French and German Opinion.

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PARIS, April 23.-Repubhque Fran
Cause says that the German government
has informed Flourens, minister of for
eign affairs, that Bismarck admits that if
the arrest of Commissary Schnaebele was
made on French territory, international
law will require his release.
The French papers persistently urge
calmness. and that the government be
left to pursue the necessary action.
Public feeling here concerning the ar
rest of Schnacbeles has grown much
calmer. 1t has transpired that the
Leipsic court, previous to the arrest, had
condemned Schnaebeles for high treason
in melting recruits to desert.
The cabinet to day discussed Schnae-
bele's arrest. The minister of Justice
submitted the report made of the affair to
the procurator at Nancy, within whose
jurisdiction the arrest took place, and the
evidence adduced at the judicial inquiry,
showing that the arrest was made on
French soil. The cabinet, as the result
of discussion, resolved that Flourens, the
foreign minister, should communicate to
the German ambassador and through the
Wrench ambassador at Berlin to Germany,
the subject matter of the documents.
Some of the ambassadors at Berlin
have been assured that no serious results
will follow the arrest of Schnaebele.
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man Gazette SCIENTIFICALLY states that the
arrest of NJ. Schnaebele took place on
German soil. The authorities had re-
ceived information that NJ. Schnaebele
had been conducting himself in a suspi-
cious manner at Metz and ether places on
the frontier. A German official who is
believed to be an accomplish of NJ.
Schnaebele has been arrested ah Metz.
The German government has not ordered,
nor could it approve anything contraryHo
international law. The statement that
NJ. Schnaebele was decoyed into German
territory is untrue.
The Beyltner IdgbldH publishes a
Metz dispatch in reference to a letter
written by Herr Gautzch, German COM
missary Of police, inviting NJ. 6chnaebele
to confer with him upon the erection of
frontier poles. Herr Gautzh writes: IF
you have any communication 10 make to
me which should neither be heard by
German officials nor by German agents,
visit me in my private room This was
sent in reply to a message from Nj.
Schnaebele who had been tampering with
Herr Gautzch and other German officials.
The feeling in German official circles is
that too much has been made of the incl
dent. Documents relating to Official in
quiry will be forwarded to Paris, proving
that NJ. Schnaebele's arrest was legal.
The National Zeitung says: Anxiety is
groundless. We are convinced that the
government will not approve of anything
not in conformity with international law.
1t is well known that Germany has often
allowed French spies to go free, and it is
improbable that Schnaebele was decoyed
into Germany so as to allow of his seizure
by German officials. 1t has already been
distinctly denied that there was any at
tempt made to decoy Schnaebele.
Public interest in the matter is abating.
The bourse did not share in the agitation.
At Paris the market has been fiat to-day,
international securities declining from /
to : per cent. This, however, was not
due to any alarm in connection with the
Scknaebele affair. 1t is realized that
Germany is now in danger of war neither
more or less han at any time since Janu-
airy.